Opportunities start with what you have.

It is no good just wishing and hoping that things will get better or complaining about “if only we had …” If you and your town or village are to move forward, you must take a fresh look at what opportunities exist. So start by conducting an opportunity scan, understanding the actual value (not the perceived value) of what opportunities exist in your community, and making a start.

Every journey starts with the first step, and it takes a lot of bricks to build a lovely house.

It can sometimes be challenging to know where to start creating community opportunities. The array of new ideas can sometimes cause progress to become paralysed. An experienced facilitator will save a lot of procrastination and valuable time, months, or even years. Practical people may already be deserting your community, so you must decide, “Can the community afford the loss to continue, or is there an opportunity for me to step in”?

What personal changes are taking place to generate community opportunities?

Knowing if your current business model will keep working is always tricky in times of adversity. However, adversity brings change and opportunity, and business models must be able to accommodate many unknowns. Some of the critical things that will bring about needed changes will be the little things that people do.

Avoid keeping people in the dark and keeping community opportunities to yourself because it will only negatively impact your business. It is their community, too, and most will want to be involved and contribute. But how? Nobody likes the old-style secret societies. Instead, give more consideration to who you elect into the government. Knowledgeable communities seem to attract the most attention and new community opportunities, so it’s essential to consider your vote.

Quotable quotes.

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”. Milton Berle

“Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity”. Peter Sergeant